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  1. Hold fast the mountain pass
    a work of historical fiction about the life and world of Nikos Kazantzakis
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Hamilton Books, Lanham, MD

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780761852520; 9780761852537
    Subjects: Authors, Greek (Modern)
    Other subjects: Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957); Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957)
    Scope: vii, 288 p
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    Includes bibliographical references

  2. Hold fast the mountain pass
    a work of historical fiction about the life and world of Nikos Kazantzakis
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Hamilton Books, Lanham, MD

    Hailed as "my spiritual brother" by Albert Schweitzer, and oft-compared to fellow giants Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis occupies a unique place among the literary notables of our time. Kazantzakis was born in1883 at the height of his... more

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    Hailed as "my spiritual brother" by Albert Schweitzer, and oft-compared to fellow giants Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis occupies a unique place among the literary notables of our time. Kazantzakis was born in1883 at the height of his country's last bloody revolts to break free of Ottoman oppression. As a child, he knew the sound and smell of fear and the sight of rampaging soldiers on the streets outside his window. He knew the blood-curdling sound of people being slaughtered, and the sight of his father standing guard at the door, his knife at the ready; knew, too, the sound of h

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780761852537; 0761852530
    Subjects: Authors, Greek (Modern); Authors, Greek (Modern); LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; General; Authors, Greek (Modern); Bibliography; Fiction
    Other subjects: Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883-1957; Kazantzakis, Nikos 1883-1957; Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957); Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957); Kazantzakis, Nikos
    Scope: Online Ressource (vii, 288 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record

  3. Hold fast the mountain pass
    a work of historical fiction about the life and world of Nikos Kazantzakis
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Hamilton Books, Lanham, MD

    This book narrates Kazantzakis' life -- his poverty, his life in exile, his struggle as a writer groping for a 'voice,' and describes the conditions under which that voice brought forth the prolific range of work that included The Odyssey, Zorba the... more

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    This book narrates Kazantzakis' life -- his poverty, his life in exile, his struggle as a writer groping for a 'voice,' and describes the conditions under which that voice brought forth the prolific range of work that included The Odyssey, Zorba the Greek, and the controversial Last Temptation of Christ

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780761852520; 9780761852537
    Subjects: Authors, Greek (Modern); Authors, Greek (Modern) -- 20th century -- Fiction; Electronic books. -- local; Kazantzakis, Nikos, -- 1883-1957 -- Bibliography; Kazantzakis, Nikos, -- 1883-1957 -- Fiction
    Other subjects: Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957); Kazantzakis, Nikos (1883-1957)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vii, 288 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references

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    Contents; Chapter One. 1886; Chapter Two. Nikos; Chapter Three. Mihalis; Chapter Four. Educating Nikos; Chapter Five. 1889-Flight; Chapter Six. Massacre; Chapter Seven. A Time of Respite; Chapter Eight. Liberty!; Chapter Nine. The Idle Days of Summer; Chapter Ten. Melancholy Brooding; Chapter Eleven. Galatea and a Hut by the Sea; Chapter Twelve. The Crossing; Chapter Thirteen. The Three Arcades; Chapter Fourteen. Above the Stagnant Waters of Convention; Chapter Fifteen. "A Compelling New Voice"; Chapter Sixteen. Ridi Pagliaccio; Chapter Seventeen. Four Sparsely Furnished Rooms

    Chapter Eighteen. KrasiChapter Nineteen. Marcos Avyeris; Chapter Twenty. How Hidden Nuances Can Trip Us Up; Chapter Twenty-One. Angelos . . . God . . . and the Holy Mountain; Chapter Twenty-Two. Angelos and Eva; Chapter Twenty-Three. A Man Named Zorba; Chapter Twenty-Four. 1917; Chapter Twenty-Five. Respite at the Maternal Hearth; Chapter Twenty-Six. Mustapha Kemal and the Young Turks; Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Greek Race; Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Expatriate Life; Chapter Twenty-Nine. A Quiet Young Woman; Chapter Thirty. Tryst in Lenda; Chapter Thirty-One. Moscow Utters a Cry

    Chapter Thirty-Two. The Rupture of Two LivesChapter Thirty-Three. The Travel Journals; Chapter Thirty-Four. Sinai; Chapter Thirty-Five. Panait Istrati; Chapter Thirty-Six. "Following the Red Star"-Part II; Chapter Thirty-Seven. The Saviors of God; Chapter Thirty-Eight. The Iron Angels of the Apocalypse Begin Their Work; Chapter Thirty-Nine. Aegina; Chapter Forty. Reunion in Athens; Chapter Forty-One. The Gorilla Has Discovered Fire; Chapter Forty-Two. Casting About for Some Life Line; Chapter Forty-Three. UNESCO; Chapter Forty-Four. Antibes; Chapter Forty-Five. And From One Small Spark

    Chapter Forty-Six. So Little TimeChapter Forty-Seven. El Greco's Toledo; Chapter Forty-Eight. The Last Temptation; Chapter Forty-Nine. Angelos Revisited; Chapter Fifty. A Lone Man Ascending . . . Ascending; Chapter Fifty-One. Blessed Is He Who Can Raise a Voice; Chapter Fifty-Two. Solitude . . . The Climate of Creation; Chapter Fifty-Three. Brother Francis; Chapter Fifty-Four. Brother Prevelakis; Chapter Fifty-Five. They Called It Their Little Koukouli; Chapter Fifty-Six. Men and Supermen; Chapter Fifty-Seven. China; Chapter Fifty-Eight. "We owe a cock to Asclepius"

    Chapter Fifty-Nine. Death, Oh Faithful HoundChapter Sixty. Epilogue; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Nikos Kazantzakis Selected Bibliography of Works Available in English Translation